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The University of Chicago Press Geometry of Grief Reflections on Mathematics
Book SynopsisIn this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us—even the math-averse—to understand and cope with grief.Trade Review"How the fractal nature of grief is both the key to understanding it and the doorway to moving through it is what mathematician Frame explores in his unusual book Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life. After twenty years of working with the visionary father of fractals and another twenty years of teaching fractal geometry at Yale, Frame draws on a lifetime of loss and a lifetime of delicate attention to the details of aliveness we call beauty to interleave memoir and mathematics in an uncommon tapestry of thought, twining Borges and quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology and Islamic art, music and multiverse theory. . . . Attentiveness to beauty is the instrument of transcendence—that essential facet of Frame’s geometry of grief and readjustment." -- Maria Popova * The Marginalian *"Frame has written a poignant and beautiful book. . . . Treat yourself to the wisdom of this sweet, gentle soul." -- Steven Strogatz * @stevenstrogatz *"Frame's new book, Geometry of Grief, suggests that thinking about fractals—and thinking geometrically, in general—can help us process life's most difficult moments... Zooming out instead of in, we might see our individual griefs as small versions of other tragedies in the world. Maybe, Frame says, thinking of grief as a fractal can inspire empathy and lead us to channel our sadness into helping others." * Boston Globe *"This brief, intriguing personal meditation is inspired by mathematician Michael Frame’s lifelong love of geometry — including 20 years’ collaboration with fractal geometer Benoit Mandelbrot — and the childhood loss of his aunt, who set him on his career path. He writes: 'Grief informs geometry and geometry informs grief.' How so? His epiphany on first understanding any beautiful mathematical idea is always tinged with sadness, because it is unrepeatable. With quirky illustrations, he integrates the lives of his Mom and Dad." * Nature *"The word fractal, from the Latin fractus meaning 'broken glass,' was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot, who brought mathematics closer to nature by showing that iterating a simple geometric pattern can result in complex, rough-edged, and beautiful shapes. In Geometry of Grief, Frame, a former colleague of Mandelbrot’s at Yale, aims to unite maths with our lived experience still further by showing how fractals both inform and can help us cope with the experience of irreversible loss. . . . Ambitious and moving.” * Times Literary Supplement *"Frame has written a wonderful memoir. Combining his passion for mathematics and his mastery of the geometry of fractals, in this text he seeks to educate, encourage, and inspire readers in a personal way. Identifying grief as irreversible, Frame makes surprising connections to foundational mathematical concepts such as continuity and self-similarity. . . . Here, he elucidates the foundational intertwining of science and grief in his own life through deeply and surprisingly personal stories from lived experience. Weaving together references from literature, art, popular culture, and mathematics, Frame clarifies the transcendence found through grief as a universal human experience. The text offers a wealth of resources for curious readers and is a must have for the bookshelf of any mathematics teacher who wants to inspire curiosity in students or relate with empathy to a student suffering loss. This book will be a wonderful addition to any advanced or graduate-level seminar, and preprofessionals in mathematics education will certainly benefit from exploring the book's diverse fields of discourse. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Frame writes: ‘Times folds up. So many ghosts crowd into my head. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, dear friends, students… And far too many cats.’ Live long enough oneself and one realizes that half or more of one’s friends and relatives have departed the planet, ‘summoned,’ as the poet Robert Southey had it, ‘on the grand tour of the universe,’ before one. One lives with it, saddened yet grateful oneself still to be in the game. Yet some holes never successfully fill up." * Commentary *“With poignancy and audacity, Frame builds an unexpected bridge between mathematical beauty and human sorrow, illuminating both.” -- Francis Su, author of "Mathematics for Human Flourishing"“I expected to enjoy the experience of thinking in fresh ways with Frame about grief—and encountering his love of cats, really of all nature, made manifest on the page. What blew me away were the exciting new connections among love, grief, beauty, and resilience that flowered in my mind as I read. Immersed in Frame’s world of geometry, including fractals, and its applications to real-world emotions, I sometimes felt afloat in a mysterious, and always inviting, dream. It’s a beautiful place for all of us to spend time.” -- Barbara J. King, author of "How Animals Grieve"“With concision and compassion, Frame shows how a mathematical mind makes sense of a grieving heart. The result is a peculiar, wise, and beautiful book.” -- Ben Orlin, author of "Math with Bad Drawings" and "Change Is the Only Constant"“A unique, meaningful, and moving work that connects the irreversibility of loss that comes with grief and the irreversibility of first deeply understanding something—particularly something mathematical.” -- Susan Jane Colley, Oberlin College, editor of "American Mathematical Monthly"“Captured perfectly an experience that I've long tried to put into words but couldn't—the nostalgic sense that comes immediately after a discovery. It's astonishing how so many important ideas come to us in an almost dream-like state, fully formed and with a hazy beauty that somehow falls away when we more fully work out to implications of that idea and put it into words and onto paper; the whole process makes the idea more real but somehow less charming." -- Christina Stankey, medical student and former student of Michael Frame“Frame believes everyone can fall in love with math if it’s presented with empathy and humor and clarity and context. He portrays math as math-lovers know it: a beautiful garden, a place of curiosity and delight, a tribute to human creativity and the wonders of nature.” -- Steven Strogatz, from the foreword to "Fractal Worlds"Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Geometry 2 Grief 3 Beauty 4 Story 5 Fractal 6 Beyond Appendix: More Math Acknowledgments Notes Index
£18.05
The University of Chicago Press Common Understandings Poetic Confusion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"West’s learned, innovative study offers a cultural anthropology of the Elizabethan stage—of the language in play texts and contemporaneous discussions of theater. West does not provide extended readings of individual plays, though he comments briefly on many. Rather, he focuses on the intertwining of confusions and conclusions—a favorite rhyme of the playwrights—in a theater where 'performances' embodied 'provocations toward meaning rather than representations of a meaning.' . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"West shows that playing, players, and playgoers were likened to a great many things, and it is in detailing these surprising affinities that he constructs a richly revealing account of the commercial theater as a social and embodied practice through the last quarter of the sixteenth century . . . Ingenious in its methodology and invaluable in its contribution, Common Understandings is a provocation to scholars of the early modern English theater and beyond: the book invites us not only to reconsider what counts as evidence of playing, but to recast our familiar stories about it in new light." * Modern Philology *“This exhilarating book reveals, in vivid detail, what early modern theater was like as an experience. By investigating not playing itself, but metaphors about it, West shows how theater was viewed at the time—as a place of fear or wonder, described in terms of chaos, fighting, being in a siege, eating, dancing. Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion enables us to understand, as never before, the edginess, thrill, and danger of plays and performance in the time of Shakespeare.” -- Tiffany Stern, author of Documents of Performance in Early Modern England“A dazzling account of how early modern playgoers experienced theater in the decades between 1575 and 1610, Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion links theatrical knowing and feeling to shared corporeal events and bodily sensations. Theoretically rich and brimming with telling examples, West’s book shows how the habitus of early modern playgoing was created by collective acts as simple as eating, drinking, and remembering within the bounded space of the theater.” -- Jean E. Howard, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on Textual and Other Performances Introduction There Is Not Agreement of Opinion All the World’s a Stage Every Like Is Not the Same 1: Playing Merely Players What Learn You By That? But Mark This Show 2: Occupatio An Excellent Good Word Before It Was Ill Sorted Looking Well to Borders So Curious in New Fangles 3: Understanders Deep in Understanding Plain and Easy to Be Understanden All Readers to Be Understanders Feelingly Perceive 4: Confusion Nothing but Confusion and Errors Babylonical Confusion What More Fitter Occasion? Diverse Men of Diverse Minds Commons Knowledge Interlude. Playing, Thinking 5: Supposes Valedictions to Sense Brokers of Another’s Wit A Stalking-Stamping Player Authors of All the Content 6: Eating Between Meals Some Hungry Scenes Playing with Food 7: Non Plus I’ll Have a Challenge, Too Fencers, Bearwards, Common Players Non Plus Trying Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Index
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Get in the Game An Interactive Introduction to
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Get in the Game is a playful and welcoming introduction to the interplay between sports and math. Assuming no math and using only a coin and a die, Chartier artfully illustrates why sports analytics matter through the simplest of questions: how do we measure greatness? This is a must-read for anyone curious about the analytical side of sport.” -- John Urschel, former NFL offensive lineman, Institute for Advanced Study, and coauthor of "Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football"“I’ve always wished I could keep a miniature Tim Chartier on my shoulder while I’m watching sports: a brilliant, enthusiastic, friendly expert eager to share his insights about the games. With this book, you’ve got the next best thing.” -- Ben Orlin, author of "Math Games with Bad Drawings"“A fun, important book that will draw a lot of sports fans into analytics and mathematics. Lively and informative.” -- Roland B. Minton, author of "Sports Math: An Introductory Course in the Mathematics of Sports Science and Sports Analytics"“Fun and full of puzzles and brainteasers in a mashup of mathematics. . . . Magic.” -- Robert Schaefer * New York Journal of Books, on "Math Bytes" *Table of Contents1 Unforgettably Unbelievable 2 Shoot 3’s Like Steph Curry 3 Dicey Hitting Streak 4 Racking Up the Wins 5 Unbreakable Tennis 6 Improbable NFL Playoff 7 FIFA Octopus Oracle 8 Super-sized Super Bowl TD 9 Scoring Confidence 10 Tiger’s Consistency 11 Moneyball Analytics 12 Race Usain Bolt 13 Get in the Game Acknowledgments Further Reading Personal Training—Answers
£14.25
The University of Chicago Press A Troubled Birth The 1930s and American Public
Book SynopsisWe need to go back to the beginning of the idea of "public opinion" and a mass public to understand what the American public has become. Trade Review"Herbst explores the forces that shape the amorphous thing known as “public opinion,” concerning herself with its quality more than its specific content." * Foreign Affairs *"In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst, an eminent thought leader on public opinion in American democracy, helps us grapple with these tensions by taking us back to the formidable shaping of public opinion in the 1930s and the trappings that have followed us since...A Troubled Birth is a must‐read for anyone grappling with ideas of the American 'public' and how to assess public opinion in the face of so many social, technological, and political changes. Herbst masterfully weaves history with contemporary reality, encouraging her array of readers to reevaluate their own biases by looking at where they originated." * Political Science Quarterly *"Susan Herbst’s A Troubled Birth is an engaging and original analysis of American public opinion in the 1930s. This is not a book about the content of public opinion. Rather, it examines how a particular vision of the American public came into being during this turbulent and pivotal decade." * Perspectives on Politics *“Anyone looking to understand how US democracy ended up in its current troubled state of affairs will benefit from reading A Troubled Birth. Herbst has long been teaching us to reconsider what we mean by public opinion better than anyone, and she’s done it again masterfully here.” -- Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison“In this engaging and wide-ranging book, Herbst emphasizes the importance of broader cultural history in showing that the advent of scientific polling and pollsters in the 1930s did not merely offer a way to measure public opinion for the pursuit of American democracy. For better or ill, they along with the mass media (radio and newspapers), economic crisis (and how individuals cope with it), President Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership and communication style, political divisions (including on race and immigration), debates in the academic world, entertainment and early “infotainment,” and other visible developments in the United States (and worldwide), that have their counterparts today, turned public opinion which had been relatively amorphous concept into a tangible, multifaceted, and contentious one. This is an illuminating and impressive work.” -- Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Birth of a Public 2 President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist 3 Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship 4 A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World’s Fair 5 Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly 6 Interlude: A Depression Needn’t Be So Depressing 7 Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£27.90
The University of Chicago Press Bette Davis Black and White
Book SynopsisBette Davis’s career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.Trade Review"A prescient book about white people who mean well but fall short . . . There is no other book in which the author takes herself as the object of reception study and, in so doing, exposes the lived aspect of the US race and class divide. The reader who is initially drawn to this book because of a fascination with stardom will find a deeply insightful, impeccably researched study of American culture."--Jane Gaines, author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? "A unique take on the work of Bette Davis, Bette Davis Black and White is important not only for extending an understanding of the actor's racial politics, attitudes and practices, but also for raising the profile of several important, but largely unknown, Black supporting actors. This book will appeal strongly to scholars of race, twentieth-century American history, film audiences, and fan studies."--Martin Shingler, author of Star Studies: A Critical GuideTable of ContentsHistorical Note Chapter 1 Introduction: Black and White Chapter 2 Little Foxes and Little Brown Wrens Chapter 3 The Poetics of Color in Jezebel Chapter 4 Melodramas of Blood in In This Our Life Chapter 5 The Whiteness of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Chapter 6 Bette Davis Black and White Acknowledgments Notes Index
£19.95
The University of Chicago Press Joy of the Worm Suicide and Pleasure in Early
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The lucidity of Daniel’s razor-sharp prose is surpassed only by the boldness and sensitivity of his thought. Joy of the Worm resists the easy logic of secularization, whereby classical valorization and Christian condemnation of self-killing sequentially give way to a modern understanding of suicide as a cry for help. Instead, Daniel attunes us to materialist understandings and aesthetic representations of self-destruction in which cruelty and tenderness, sorrow and mirth, ugliness and beauty mingle conceptually and tonally. Daniel’s meticulous and humane readings attune us to a complex affective and social landscape surrounding suicide.” * Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania *“What happens if we take seriously the failed seriousness of literary scenes of self-killing? ‘Joy within death’ is the ambit of Daniel’s revelatory book, which gathers instances on both sides of Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici (1643)—the work that debuted the word ‘suicide’—to show this ‘contrary aesthetic tendency’ accreting generic force. By reckoning with the levity that animates the choice not to bear what must be borne, Joy of the Worm offers a brilliant and necessary meditation on the resources early modernity furnishes for finding pleasure in an age of destruction and setting down the burden of false hope.” * Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago *“Joy of the Worm is a brilliant, deeply thoughtful, conceptually agile, ethically serious, and surprisingly funny work. Before the emergence of suicide as the pathologized act we currently understand it to be, self-killing enabled a wider set of affective and aesthetic responses. Alert to the difficulty of this topic, Daniel moves deftly back and forth between our twenty-first-century present and the early modern past so that we can understand our own assumptions for what they are: historically contingent ways of framing and perhaps diminishing a fundamental human possibility.” * Timothy M. Harrison, author of 'Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England' *"The book is rich with references to literary critics, philosophers, and thinkers both ancient and modern; present-day thinking about suicide; and aspects of current popular culture but is always accessible and easy to follow. Undergraduates will find the sections on Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra especially enlightening. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"This monograph is of value to students and teachers of early modern literature and culture, yet no review can adequately encapsulate the experience of reading it. Like the joy of the worm, the book itself evades the expected experience of its genre (the academic monograph) and instead offers—less dramatically than self-killing but with notable acuity—the indulgence of playful prose and the invitation to ponder life and death with indecorous delight. Many of its findings enlighten us about living as much as about dying." * Review of English Studies *"Drawing on intellectual and literary history, Daniel explores how voluntary death - distinguishing between suicide and self-killing - in literature goes beyond tragedy." * Renaissance and Reformation *"It is a testament to the sheer brilliance of Drew Daniel’s new book—and by 'brilliance' I mean not only its impressive intelligence but also the delightful sparkle of its prose—that I found myself, while reading it, frequently giggling with glee over his meditations on the topic of [suicide] . . . Above all else — even beyond the persuasiveness of its arguments and sharp-eyed close readings — the enjoyment the book generates stems largely from the wit and eloquence of its writing." * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Renaissance Self-Finishing Chapter 1 Failed Seriousness in the Old Arcadia and Gallathea Chapter 2 Slapstick and Synapothanumenon in Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 3 Trolling Decorum in Hamlet and Timon of Athens Chapter 4 The Open Window in Biathanatos Interlude Inventing Suicide in Religio Medici Chapter 5 A Cartoon about Suicide Prevention in Paradise Lost Chapter 6 Smiling at Daggers in Cato, a Tragedy Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
£63.00
The University of Chicago Press What Is Regeneration
Book SynopsisTrade Review"From hydras to humans, this short book by two marine biologists explores the peculiar process of regeneration. . . . So here is the problem: if the mechanisms of regeneration can’t be distinguished from those of growth and development, what is to stop everything ceaselessly regenerating? What dictates the process of regrowth and why does it happen only in some tissues, in some species and only some of the time? Maienschein and MacCord argue that, to fully understand this, we need to see regeneration as a window into the world of biology in general, and the complex feedback loops that decide what grows, divides and dies, where and when. Far from being an interesting curio, then, studying regeneration can tell us much about life in general, from a cellular level right up to the level of ecosystems, and inform everything from regenerative therapies using stem cells to ecosystem protection and recovery. Seen through this lens, regeneration is a far bigger subject than it might at first seem." -- Simon Ings * New Scientist *"The most thought-provoking and enjoyable book I've read in years. I thoroughly recommend it to all who want to exercise their grey matter, to think differently and without horizons." * Marine Biologist *"In their new book What Is Regeneration?, Prof. Jane Maienschein and Dr.Kate MacCord present an introduction to what is presently known about biological regeneration. Approaching their subject from both the history and philosophy of science, as well as from practical biology, and ranging from micro through macro levels in their explanations, the authors present the 'nuts and bolts' of regeneration." * The Well-Read Naturalist *"Maienschein and MacCord adopt a systems-based approach to explore the logic of regeneration and consider the shift in the meaning of the term regeneration over time. . . . This book lays the groundwork for a projected series, with the intention of helping a wide audience—ranging from scholars to policy makers and including general readers—gain a new understanding of regeneration as a process characteristic of all living systems." * Choice *“The book shows exceptional strengths and represents a unique approach that is not only beneficial for a wide audience, but also is needed to face current challenges to humanity and global ecological developments. An essential contribution.” -- Hanna Lucia Worliczek, University of Vienna, Austria“A truly thought-provoking book, meant not only for students and scientists, but also politicians and laypersons.” -- Eric Röttinger, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Université Côte d’Azur, France
£16.00
The University of Chicago Press Pure Adulteration
Book SynopsisBenjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States. In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bought was the food you thought you bought? Could something manufactured still be pure? Is it okay to manipulate nature far enough to produce new foods but not so far that you question its safety and health? How do you know where the line is? And who decides? In Pure Adulteration, Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods and the perceived problems they wrought. Cohen follows farmers, manufacturers, grocers, hucksters, housewives, politicians, and sciTrade Review"As Benjamin R. Cohen notes in his thoughtful book Pure Adulteration, it is difficult to find a time or a place in history that lacks purveyors of food and drink attempting to cheat their unsuspecting customers. [Cohen] brings up the age-old problem of adulteration as essential context for his more recent case study of the underlying issues. . . . [He asks] a range of provocative and intriguing questions about U.S. food systems. What, for example, does this fight for food purity tell us about the changing nature of the country; its shifting culture, commerce, and politics; and its emerging scientific power?" * Science *"Well-written and deftly crafted. . . . Cohen’s book is a compelling read that combines colourful characters and fascinating geographies of commodities and cultures with important philosophical and intellectual discussions over what constitutes food or fraud. This book is a timely one as debates over food regulation and standards likely will dominate future trade talks between the US, Britain and other territories across the world." * Ambix *"Cohen is a historian and engineer, and his book is erudite and whimsical, richly documented with vintage advertisements and production statistics. . . . [He] walks us through a formative moment." * Literary Review of Canada *"Good food writing makes you think about what you eat in a different way. Good food history helps explain how and why we eat what we eat now. The fact that Benjamin Cohen can accomplish both of these tasks simultaneously is a considerable achievement. . . . Pure Adulteration masterfully explains the complicated early days of a movement that is more relevant to today's times than ever before." * Agricultural History *"Pure Adulteration does a great job of explaining the complicated interrelationships of various industries (like cottonseed with wheat and pork) and the ways that new food products affected international trade. . . . The work is perhaps at its most intriguing when it reveals the many ways foods and racial prejudice have been interconnected. . . . Made enjoyable by Cohen’s gentle, witty voice and crystal-clear writing style. Illuminating and enjoyable." * Culinary Historians of Canada *"Cohen explains how the ideal of purity and the sin of adulteration came to shape which foods Americans viewed as acceptable and which as unacceptable at a time when they had decreasing control over how food was produced. . . . Cohen’s thoughtful argument is made stronger by his cogent writing as well as numerous illustrations. His writing is clear and precise, striking an enjoyable balance between the formal and the informal. It has become common for historians to make more use of the first person to give readers entrée into a complex narrative, but not everyone weaves together the different tones with the skill that Cohen does." * H-Soz-Kult *" 'Trusting food meant trusting people.' This truth, as well as many of the anxieties of America’s Gilded Age chronicled by Benjamin R. Cohen in Pure Adulteration, resonates strongly in the twenty-first century. Indeed, it is remarkable how little ideological, and psychological, distance has been covered. . . . Cohen depicts a cat-and-mouse game between ever-adapting adulterers and 'pure food' crusaders, which set the tone for our current labyrinth of regulation. . . . The products have changed, but the moral handwringing and naturalistic nostalgia continue." * Times Literary Supplement *"Cohen offers a fresh take on familiar tales of food fraud and its detection. . . . Pure Adulteration is a breezy read. Cohen draws upon colorful anecdotes and characters to make the story of food adulteration entertaining and compelling. He also makes excellent use of visual evidence to reinforce his vivid storytelling, including maps of commodity flows and political cartoons. . . . Pure Adulteration analyzes the pure food crusades on food fraud but lets the reader decide if they leave a bitter taste in the mouth." * Environmental History *"Engaging and accessible . . . this work will likely find an audience among general readers as well as those studying American history or food science. . . . Recommended. All readers." * CHOICE *"Never have analytical chemists had a quirkier and more entertaining chronicler. This is not dry organizational history. . . . Like the nineteenth-century foods it explicates, Pure Adulteration satisfies precisely because it recombines familiar ingredients—in this case, cultural, economic, and intellectual history—in a novel form. It is genuinely good history by any measure." * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *"A much-needed fresh take on the era of adulteration. . . . Cohen’s work sits alongside other recent works that unpack notions of purity showing us that even in scientific contexts the 'pure' is always a complex and shifting composite of culture, morality, and power. . . . Using digital maps to trace production and trade, Cohen also adds to the growing work at the intersection of food studies and environmental history, which help us to see the consumer side of food systems as fundamentally connected to labor, agriculture, advertising, and science. . . . Cohen seamlessly weaves his historical analysis together with personal anecdotes and fascinating insights, making this book a fun and exciting read. It is an approachable book for undergraduate students or general readers, but will also offer compelling insights for scholars of the nineteenth-century U.S. interested in food, environment, consumerism, and regulatory policy." * Food, Culture & Society *"There is little to criticize in terms of Cohen's research and reach into the relevant scholarly literature. . . . The work engages with and gives cultural structure to questions that persist to this day. Pure Adulteration deserves a wide audience, consisting of both scholars and the general public alike, and will reward them for the effort." * Journal of American History *"Cohen has assembled a compelling set of stories, recounting the deeds of food charlatans and chemists of various stripes, and uses these stories to open up his serious exploration of the place of food in modernity’s radical reorientation of relations with nature. It’s a work of revelation, uncovering the many hidden ingredients that have gone into the foods we consume." -- Douglas C. Sackman, author of Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden"A richly detailed, intellectually sophisticated account of the conflicts at the core of our personal and social identities. Cohen wears his learning lightly and knows how to tell a good story, so the book is a pleasure to read as well as a fresh and illuminating perspective on a central theme in American cultural history." -- Jackson Lears, author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920"What makes some foods pure and real and others not? Cohen traces the colorful history—and geography—of this question. Timely and engaging, Pure Adulteration shows that industrialization changed not just where food comes from but also where and to whom we look for reasons to trust it." -- Susanne Freidberg, author of Fresh: A Perishable History"Cohen’s important book corrects standard narratives of adulteration and regulation, which tend to give outsized credit to Harvey Wiley and The Jungle. He demonstrates persuasively that American ideas about ‘purity’ changed enormously over the time period he considers, moving from an experiential and primarily agricultural concept to a consumer-oriented standard whose ultimate arbiter was laboratory analysis." -- Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University"Pure Adulteration is a significant contribution to the field of food and nutrition history. This monograph is an important read for anyone interested in the cultural history of the Gilded Age or the cultural history of industrial food production more broadly. The themes and evidence Cohen employs allows readers to consider the complexities of how cultural ideas of morality, gender, race, national identity, and humanity’s relationship to the environment all shaped the era of adulteration in America." * Social History *Table of ContentsTable of Maps Prologue 1: The Appearance of Being Earnest Part I: The Culture of Adulteration 2: Surfaces and Interiors 3: Household, Grocer, and Trust Part II: The Geography of Adulteration 4: Margarine in a Dairy World 5: Oil without Olives and Lard without Hogs 6: Glucose in the Empire of Sugar Part III: The Analysis of Adulteration 7: Analysis as Border Patrol 8: Food and the Government Chemist Epilogue: The Persistence of Adulteration Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Proceed to Check Out
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There are few poets right now capable of capturing the ever-extending, doubling back, reaching, twisting, self-contradictory, fluttering flux of consciousness with as much conviction, poignancy, aching humor, and formal excitement as Alan Shapiro-what happens in his sentences are a marvel of this ancient living technology we call poetry. Whether in crafty prose or tighter verse, mind and language are always in dynamic play in his new book, as he grapples with the most immediate and difficult binding forces of love, hope, vulnerability, intimacy, and the darker ones of shame, regret, anger, ignorance, and desire: poem after poem, the balance is struck by formally achieving the interplay between intuitions of freedom and acknowledgments of constraint and impossibility. With the sharp insight and spoken vigor of a novelist drawn to dramatic ironies and with concentrated lyric energy and lift, Shapiro's artistry reaffirms poetry's central and enduring role in our private and social lives, not for its visionary fictions, but for its infinitely rich realities about who we are to ourselves and to each other." -- Joshua Weiner, author of Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees? "No contemporary poet offers greater largesse of intelligence, emotion, and invention than Shapiro. Every sentence and every line of Proceed to Check Out sparkles-with formal precision and imaginative openness, social conscience and psychological savvy, hilarity and fatalism, unsparing skepticism and unstinting sympathy. Few movies or novels render contemporary life with the high-res vivacity of these poems, and yet Shapiro stays true to his lyric gift, his skill for carving art from the twists and turns of the individual voice confronting mortality. Shapiro is a genius." -- Peter Campion, author of One Summer Evening at the FallsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ONE Holding Cell Zoom Reunion in Heaven The Periodic Table Space Blanket The Great Closer Uncle Hy Pumice Sugar Shack Money TWO Recurring Dreams THREE The Net Wedding Tent Divorce Party Bonfire Ding Dong, the Bells Are Gonna Chime What the End Was Like Opportunity Indifference From the Hallway Animal Crackers An Arrangement Backward Now I Lay Me FOUR Letters Holocene At the Museum of Life and Science Ten Statements of Not Knowing Art According to Curly Ten Thoughts on Trauma and Catharsis Pastime Hazel Gravity and Grace Hole in One Tree on Mountain The Old Age of Oliver Death of Alan Ghost Story
£14.40
The University of Chicago Press From the Seashore to the Seafloor An Illustrated
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Look closely, dear people. Look with sympathy and fascination and awe. Look upon these majesties of marine life, read about them, learn something about them—and be grateful you were born on the blue planet. . . . The minds and the eyes of these two journeying women will take you places you haven’t been.” * David Quammen *"From the Seashore to the Seafloor . . . takes its readers on a watercolor illustrated journey between its title locations of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, blending into its narrative explanations of some of the creatures and systems to be found along the way with exhortations to conserve them." * The Well-read Naturalist *"From the Seashore to the Seafloor is a gem. . . Reflecting the scientific experiences of Dr. Voight, an expert in mollusks who has taken eight dives in the deep-sea Alvin submersible, each chapter focuses on a different marine ecosystem. . . Almost every page is graced with Macnamara’s carefully observed and lively, brilliantly colorful illustrations. . . From the Seashore to the Seafloor is a lovely and very informative work that would be welcome in any scientist’s or artist’s library." * American Biology Teacher *
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The University of Chicago Press Sound Writing Experimental Modernism and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What broader lessons does Sound Writing hold? As I have said, Wilke counters familiar stories about the disruptiveness of modernisms with an account of continuity, showing how sound poets looked back to Romanticism, amongst other things. But the passion of his study is perhaps to show that one needn’t choose between the two, because rupture and continuity are united by a dialectic." * American Literary History *"Along with studying 'multiple avant-garde strategies for reducing poetry to its most elemental conditions in vocal sound production,' Wilke also carefully explores scientific approaches to the production of vocal sound in order to demonstrate how poets 'appropriat[ed] scientific-experimental concepts and techniques.'" * Modern Philology *"A singular achievement for German studies and literary studies at large, Wilke’s important work also makes meaningful and original interventions in Media Studies, Art history, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, and history of science and technology." * Germanic Review *"The book is an important addition to other studies developed at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung that engage with science and literature and is of relevance to cultural studies, sound studies, modernist, and avant-garde studies alike." * German Quarterly *“This excellently researched and lucidly written study will make a substantive contribution to modern literary studies. Through wonderful formulations and analyses, Wilke illuminates fascinating technical innovations in sound writing and links them to poetic engagement and practices. This is in every respect a delightful and important contribution to modern literary and cultural studies.” -- Johanna Drucker, author of Inventing the Alphabet“Sound Writing presents a new understanding of what is often called the ‘nonsense poetry’ of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and its intellectual background, as well as its echoes in later avant-gardes. In telling this story, Wilke draws on underexplored sources and draws out new causal lines. With Language Poetry, translingualism, collage, conceptual writing, and artificial intelligence on our minds, the topic of the book cannot be ignored, and Wilke’s contribution is sure to be widely read and discussed.” -- Haun Saussy, author of Are We Comparing Yet?Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Voice Figures: Visible Sound and the Poetics of Articulation (1787–1965) Oaoa, or The Eidophonetic Poem Vibrating Disks and Primary Letters Photographing Speech 2. Toward a Science of Verse: Speech Movements, Graphic Inscription, and the Study of Poetry (1871–1915) Writing of the Mouth “The Art of Reading Curves” Symbolic Sounds 3. Mama—Papa—Dada: Poetic Expression at the Threshold of Language (1916–1947) Remaking Verse in the Vocal Tract From Babble to Gesture to Word (and Back) E dada: Reading Graphic Articulations Birdsong in Translation 4. Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations: Experimental Modernism in a Technical Age (1947–1967) “Visible Speech” between Body and Bits Rearticulating Poetic Experimentation Beyond Lineality, or The Expansion of Writing Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Metropolitan Museum Journal 2021
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The University of Chicago Press Musical Migration and Imperial New York
Book SynopsisThrough archival work and storytelling, Musical Migration and Imperial New York revises many inherited narratives about experimental music and art in postwar New York. From the urban street level of music clubs and arts institutions to the world-making routes of global migration and exchange, this book redraws the map of experimental art to reveal the imperial dynamics and citizenship struggles that continue to shape music in the United States. Beginning with the material conditions of power that structured the cityscape of New York in the early Cold War years, Brigid Cohen looks at a wide range of artistic practices (concert music, electronic music, jazz, performance art) and actors (Edgard Varèse, Charles Mingus, Yoko Ono, and Fluxus founder George Maciunas) as they experimented with new modes of creativity. Cohen links them with other migrant creators vital to the city's postwar culture boom, creators whose stories have seldom been told (Halim El-Dabh, Michiko Toyama, VladimirTrade Review“This is a field-changing book. Cohen calls to account many legends about experimental music in New York and strips away the heroic storytelling of the past to reveal uncomfortable truths about the racial and imperial underpinnings of modern music in the United States. In Cohen’s study, hard-to-find and fragmentary sources are brought to light in ways that change what we know. The readings of music and sound are deeply illuminating, sometimes breathtaking, in their revelations and in their surprising connections with biographical detail.” * Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University *“In Musical Migration and Imperial New York, we witness a scholar working at the height of her powers. Through this expansive and novel history, we watch fascinating yet understudied actors play out their imperialist and technological fantasies on an urban landscape marked by racial and gendered differences. After reckoning with Cohen’s reenvisioning, scholars of twentieth-century music, art, and urban life will have to rethink the New York City they thought they knew.” * Ryan Dohoney, Northwestern University *“Conventional approaches to experimental music tend to overemphasize the idea of ‘musical genius’ and often lead to problematic exceptionalist narratives. In Musical Migration and Imperial New York, Cohen sidesteps this problem by focusing on the ways in which experimental artists as aesthetically and ideologically varied as Charles Mingus, Vladimir Ussachevsky, or Yoko Ono mediated conversations about belonging at the intersection of external geopolitical power plays and internal assimilation. Cohen’s acutely tuned ear and brilliant prose guide us through the rich and thrilling experience of listening to the physiognomic overtones of citizenship, migration, and empire-building as they shaped the development of experimental art and music scenes in Cold War New York City.” * Alejandro L. Madrid, Cornell University *"Cohen masterfully marshals alternative sources including rare tapes, interviews and interpretations of official recordings. The result is a work of scholarship that not only pays long overdue attention to artists like Toyama and El-Dabh but changes the terms by which we encounter major figures like Mingus and Ono." * The Wire *"Cohen, a professor in NYU’s Department of Music, illuminates the contributions of these artists—many of them underappreciated—through the venues where their creations were displayed, performed, and composed. Some of these sites have similar purposes today, while others offer only architectural whispers of the history made there more than a half century ago." * NYU News *"In Musical Migration and Imperial New York, Cohen demonstrates the ways in which musical actors have negotiated their entanglements with power—power of the political elite, to be sure, but also the soft power of those working behind the scenes to finance, create, preserve, and subvert artistic movements in the shadow of the United States’ rapidly expanding empire. . . I believe this text will be embraced by scholars of contemporary/experimental/avant-garde music and will also be of great interest to anyone curious about migration, imperialism, Cold War politics, totalitarianism, performance art, postwar technology, or citizenship. In short, this densely woven and comprehensively researched book is a welcome addition to our field and to those of our cross-disciplinary collaborators." * Journal of American Musicology Society *"Chance encounters, indeterminacy, dissonance, electronic sounds and non-western tunings: any and all of these are distinctive sonic markers of the twentieth-century American experimental musical tradition. However, as Brigid Cohen persuasively argues in her new book, baked into this so-called 'new music' were traces of a Cold War politics of empire distinct to the United States and, even more specifically, to New York City. . . . The effect is revelatory, placing the book in dialogue not just with new studies of ethnicity and experimental music but with histories of the mind sciences and the wartime development of area studies as well." * Gotham Center for New York City History *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: A Recent History of Music, Citizenship, and American Empire 1. Third Space, Scene of Subjection: Mingus and Varèse at Greenwich House 2. Cold War Acropolis I: Ussachevsky, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the CPEMC 3. Cold War Acropolis II: Toyama and El-Dabh at the CPEMC 4. A Counter-Discourse of Orientalism: Ono in Opera 5. The Haunting of Empires: Maciunas, Fluxus, and the Bloodlands 6. Concluding Thoughts Acknowledgments Notes Archival Sources Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Emergency
Book SynopsisNine short essays exploring the K'iche' Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world's creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In Trade Review"A work concerned with multiplicity. . . . Garcia’s Emergency is a reorientation, a shift in perspective, while recognizing there is no such thing as a return to originality nor to a specific origin point. What if origin is a weaving, a constant wearing of stories and timetables, perpetual changes and cyclical advantages?" * Cleveland Review of Books *“Garcia contributes a penetrating and eloquent exposition of a unique document of the indigenous Americas. He shows how the Popol Vuh extends our understanding of oppression and ecological ruin in our time.” -- Alphonso Lingis, author of Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality“In this brilliant exegesis, Garcia reveals the Popol Vuh as a living document, a dialogical story of creation crafted in conditions of colonial emergency, which still bears urgent relevance today. Consisting of a series of short and lyrical essays on a wide range of topics, Emergency is a thought-provoking commentary essential for anyone who engages with this foundational text.” -- Claudia Brittenham, author of The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico“I would like to believe that the exquisite tapestry of this book, which weaves together history, myth, philosophical reflection, and literary criticism, heralds a new era of poetic scholarship in the humanities (‘poetic’ in Vico’s sense). We are in need of this kind of imaginative reanimation of our academic vocation.” -- Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our AgeTable of ContentsBirds Wealth Caves Television Demons Migrations Love The Sun Mormons Afterword References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Street Scriptures Between God and HipHop
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nava introduces an intervention into the excesses and shortcomings of two of the major theological movements of the 20th century: Latin American liberation theology and Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of beauty, the via pulchritudinis. He notes how liberation theology underdetermined beauty as a suspicious distraction from social justice, while the theology of beauty, in liturgy and beyond, overdetermined beauty through a fixed cultural lens. . . . This erudition and range make the book’s most compelling case for itself." * America Magazine *"Nava explores the connections between religion and hip-hop, revealing the overlooked theological roots of the genre and its potential to change the world." * US Catholic Magazine, "What We're Reading" *“Using examples from current hip-hop artists, as well as popular artists from the past, Nava passionately describes the blending of religion, politics, culture, and aesthetics in hip-hop music.” * Reading Religion *"A stylistically playful yet materially serious examination of public theologies done from and for the margins. Any courses focusing on the intersection of 'faith/theology' and 'culture' would benefit from Nava’s work." * Religious Studies Review *"With this majestic study, Nava reclaims ‘the streets’ as a living, breathing text, through which black and brown youth transmute everyday terror into spiritual beauty and hurl truth on the doorsteps of power. By placing academic theology and urban hip-hop culture side by side, Nava’s work has the potential to usher both into a more liberating future.” -- Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of 'Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball'“Nava’s writing pulses with passion—electric, vivid, joyful, and oh so readable. By immersing the reader in the music, Nava offers the most compelling lens available on exactly how hip-hop created a moral aesthetic that moves people to change the world. Street Scriptures is social criticism of the highest order.” -- Jonathon Kahn, author of 'Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois'“In this compelling work, Nava reads the radically subversive ‘street scriptures’ of hip-hop as a distinctive form of urban liberation theology. This elegantly argued book by a scholar and activist is an important contribution to the study of urban religion and of ‘religion’ itself in one of its most powerful and challenging contemporary instantiations.” -- Robert Orsi, author of 'History and Presence'
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Positivism Behaviorism and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A compact discussion of some crucial issues economists should be contemplating." * The Enlightened Economist *"Beyond Positivism [presents] a criticism and reshaping of economic thought that departs from neoinstitutionalism and other non-'humanomical' movements, promoting the ethics of liberalism as the ideal foundation for an adequate economic science." * Journal of Economic Literature *“The manuscript is a collection of writings for various forums, many reviews of others and many replies to critics. One unifying theme is a critique of neoinstitutional economics. But yet another theme is a defense of the bourgeois trilogy against its critics. This book is well worth a read.” -- Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut“This new book deepens the continuing conversation in Humanomics. It’s essentially about discovering Adam Smith and resuming a path that McCloskey has so magnificently helped to reinvigorate in the last half century.” -- Vernon Smith, Chapman University and 2002 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsTable of ContentsIntroduction The Argument in Brief Part I. Economics Is in Scientific Trouble Chapter 1. An Antique, Unethical, and Badly Measured Behaviorism Doesn’t Yield Good Economic Science or Good Politics Chapter 2. Economics Needs to Get Serious about Measuring the Economy Chapter 3. The Number of Unmeasured “Imperfections” Is Embarrassingly Long Chapter 4. Historical Economics Can Measure Them, Showing Them to Be Small Chapter 5. The Worst of Orthodox Positivism Lacks Ethics and Measurement Part II. Neoinstitutionalism Shares in the Troubles Chapter 6. Even the Best of Neoinstitutionalism Lacks Measurement Chapter 7. And “Culture,” or Mistaken History, Will Not Repair It Chapter 8. That Is, Neoinstitutionalism, Like the Rest of Behavioral Positivism, Fails as History and as Economics Chapter 9. As It Fails in Logic and in Philosophy Chapter 10. Neoinstitutionalism, in Short, Is Not a Scientific Success Part III. Humanomics Can Save the Science Chapter 11. But It’s Been Hard for Positivists to Understand Humanomics Chapter 12. Yet We Can Get a Humanomics Chapter 13. And Although We Can’t Save Private Max U Chapter 14. We Can Save an Ethical Humanomics Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Children On Seven Novels and a Story
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An original spin on literary criticism." * Publishers Weekly *“In his absorbing short study . . . Gross offers an extraordinary account of a certain form of uncanny childhood.” * Times Literary Supplement *"Lovely and completely idiosyncratic . . . [Gross] ruminates upon eight very strange fictional children, ranging from Lewis Carroll’s Alice to Nabokov’s Lolita. Read alongside one another, they . . . allow us to see things anew: silence and speech, subjecthood and objecthood, sense and nonsense. Gross’s thinking is subtle and stylish.'" * Commonweal *“An original—and fruitful—approach to literary criticism.” * Irish Times *“A series of startling insights and evocations, Dangerous Children reveals just how uncanny and enigmatic children can be. In eight really quite brilliantly subtle chapters Gross shows us, improbably, that we have never really been curious enough about childhood.” -- Adam Phillips, author of On Getting Better“This exhilarating, risk-taking study draws together children figured in disparate writers and transfigures our reading of them. Lewis Carroll and Kafka, Elizabeth Bowen and Richard Hughes, Nabokov and Henry James, Collodi and Barrie, all generate dangerous children who live between play and death. Gross brilliantly conveys their mystery.” -- Gillian Beer, author of Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll“Gross doesn’t call his children dangerous for nothing. From Carroll’s Alice to Collodi’s Pinocchio and Nabokov’s Lolita, they are all fictional and therefore cannot die. They are also especially well equipped, in this subtle analysis, to suffer and explore the dangers of innocence entangled in knowledge. As the text reminds us, it was very clear to the heroine of What Maisie Knew that she was not supposed to know things. The book is a wonderful read on many accounts, not least because its apparently pastoral topic becomes so eerie.” -- Michael Wood, author of Yeats and ViolenceTable of ContentsPrologue Alice Pinocchio Maisie Peter Odradek Emily Portia Lolita Coda Acknowledgments Notes Readings Index
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The University of Chicago Press Quantum Legacies Dispatches from an Uncertain
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A masterpiece of historical analysis. . . . Skillfully written and a pleasure to read." * Nature * "A work of coherence, accessibility, and rhetorical power not generally found in [these] volumes. . . . Kaiser has woven together a unique, compelling, and kaleidoscopic portrait of the quantum revolution and its implications. He doesn't hide from the messiness of science but embraces the challenge of understanding its underlying human and social conditions." -- Jose G. Perillan * Physics Today * "Quantum Legacies does not disappoint. . . . It is a breath of fresh air to see physics writing like this: lucid and friendly, sober and thoughtful, and willing to trust the reader's engagement and intelligence rather than demanding the former and underestimating the latter. . . . Superb popular science. . . . It is hard for me to imagine any physicist who wouldn't enjoy the fine cloth from which it is cut, nor the pleasing effect it makes." -- Philip Ball * Physics World * "Engrossing. . . . Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity." * Los Angeles Review of Books * "Most history books written for the wider public favor a narrower understanding of science. David Kaiser's work is a welcomed exception. . . . [He] gives a witty and insightful overview of the development of modern physics. . . . An engrossing read that will give specialists and nonspecialists alike a deeper understanding of how phenom ena as diverse as geopolitics and eastern mysticism have shaped physics in the past century." * Science * "An ambitious collection of essays that merges [Kaiser's] two scholarly identities. . . . A wide-ranging anthology." -- Melinda Baldwin * Physics Today * "From Einstein to Heisenberg, Schroedinger to Hawking, Kaiser humanises the people and by extension their ideas, all the while making connections between the inner world of the academic quantum theory community and the outer world of global events. This sociopolitical standpoint is a key factor in making the technical science relevant to the non-expert reader. . . . In this collection of highly entertaining essays, he finds the perfect line between scientific scholarship and telling a good story." * Engineering & Technology * "All together it paints a very compelling picture of how strategic decisions at the public policy level shaped the way physicists have gone about studying the universe. . . . It's a good story well told." * Forbes * "Captivating. . . . You can really get the sense of the quantum mechanical impact on various and disparate fields ranging from cosmology to the early foundations of quantum mechanics, the history of quantum mechanics, all the way up through popular culture, weaving its way through how physics pedagogy and even scientific STEM pedagogy is taught to this very day. . . . It's exhaustively researched and referenced. . . . I want people to buy every single copy." -- Brian Keating * Into the Impossible * "The book paints intimate portraits of some incredible luminaries . . . . Kaiser is an incredible ambassador for physics and its history." -- Matthew Jordan * New Books in Science, Technology, and Society * "Fantastically readable. Anybody interested in either science or history on a professional or a popular level should read it. It's a fantastic introduction to the way you can think about science in all sorts of different interdisciplinary, humanistic ways. It's really a huge amount of fun." -- Matthew Stanley * What the If? * "It's [Kaiser's] careful analysis of physics's sociological aspects that makes Quantum Legacies a delightful read. . . . This is the kind of material that you won't find in other books on the history and philosophy of physics." -- Ash Jogalekar * The Curious Wavefunction * "This interesting anthology on selected topics from the rich history of quantum mechanics, especially during its glory days, will engross any reader who has even a modest acquaintance with quantum theory." * Choice, 2020 Outstanding Academic Title * "Full of striking statistics, commentary, and lovely analogies and metaphors. . . . These are engaging, though-provoking, fun-to-read essays that are compact enough that one can get through several in an evening. They will make you consider familiar physical concepts in new ways. All readers will come away richer in their knowledge of the people and circumstances behind how physics arrived at where it is. You will enjoy this book." * American Journal of Physics * "The book not only gives an insight into the development of quantum theory and the lives of the scientists involved, it also explores the complexities of funding, political and sociological considerations, and the influence of the Cold War. . . . [It] provides useful background for physics educators and deserves a place in school science libraries." * Physics Education * "Kaiser-writing in prose that sometimes soars, often intrigues, and always informs-gives us here a remarkable set of vignettes about major developments in physics and cosmology of the past century. His vignettes beautifully integrate science with human history and with insightful descriptions of outsized personalities. This book will be enjoyable and enlightening for a diverse readership: from complete novices in science, to students of science and history, and to professional scientists and historians." -- Kip Thorne, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, and 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics "Physicists are people! They have insecurities, love lives, monetary concerns, and political opinions, all while striving to uncover the fundamental workings of reality. Kaiser spins engaging tales that both explain fascinating aspects of physics in a lucid way and illuminate the human beings who worked to discover them." -- Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden "Have you ever wondered why Schroedinger chose such a morbid illustration of quantum physics as a half-dead cat? Want to know how an alleged Soviet spy escaped capture and went on to shake up particle physics? Can you guess what propelled The Tao of Physics to bestseller status? If questions like these spark your curiosity, this book is for you. I can imagine no better guide for an insider's tour of twentieth-century physics than Kaiser. These witty vignettes beautifully illustrate what Kaiser calls the 'doubleness' of scientific research, its ability to bequeath enduring insights while reflecting the quirks and foibles of historical circumstances." -- Deborah R. Coen, author of Climate in Motion "Explaining physics is easier than explaining physicists. In Quantum Legacies, Kaiser succeeds at both." -- George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral "What is extraordinary about Kaiser as a writer (and what makes his essays so much fun to read) is not only his ability to animate the range of personalities in these pages, from Einstein to Heisenberg, Schroedinger to Hawking, but also the way he brings the same humanizing impulse to their mind-bending ideas. His talent for uncovering connections between otherworldly ideas and the social and political worlds in which they take shape makes him a simply spellbinding guide to the mysteries of the universe." -- Nell Freudenberger, author of Lost and Wanted "Kaiser is a master writer, and this is some of his finest work. An extraordinary combination of technical science, rich history, and telling anecdote, Quantum Legacies is cutting-edge scholarship rendered in a style equal to any popular science writing. When a non-academic asks me 'what is the history of science?' I will give them this book." -- Matthew Stanley, author of Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I "Friendships and rivalries, the demands of war, the limits of technology . . . these are among the rich universe of forces that conflict and conspire to bring us what we usually gloss over as the inevitable march of scientific progress. Kaiser's book provides a wonderful glimpse behind the curtain into the messier-but far more human-truth of the matter. Beautifully written and extraordinarily well researched, the book makes a profound point about the sociopolitical nature of science that all readers-from physics buffs and historians to students and laypeople-need to hear." -- Amanda Gefter, author of Trespassing on Einstein's LawnTable of ContentsForeword Alan Lightman Introduction Quanta 1 All Quantum, No Solace 2 Life-and-Death: When Nature Refuses to Select 3 Operation: Neutrino 4 Quantum Theory by Starlight Calculating 5 From Blackboards to Bombs 6 Boiling Electrons 7 Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics 8 Training Quantum Mechanics 9 Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing Matter 10 Pipe Dreams 11 Something for Nothing 12 Higgs Hunting 13 When Fields Collide Cosmos 14 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 15 Gaga for Gravitation 16 The Other Evolution Wars 17 No More Lonely Hearts 18 Learning from Gravitational Waves 19 A Farewell to Stephen Hawking Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sound Experiments The Music of the AACM
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPaul Steinbeck’s magisterial Sound Experiments [is] a look at the AACM through “a set of ten compositions, improvisations, and recordings.” Sound Experiments contains many transcriptions and technical descriptions, but Steinbeck is a fluid writer and there are stories to tell. -- Sasha Frere-Jones * Bookforum *"In this erudite but lively account, Steinbeck presents the first in-depth study of the AACM’s musicians and music as he traces the evolution of the group's innovative work over many decades. . . . An important addition to the jazz bookshelf." * Booklist *"[Steinbeck] gives a good account of the cultural, social, political, and economic contexts from which the music emerged, and is keenly aware of the racialised gatekeeping which has all too often kept AACM composers from getting their due. . . . Ultimately, the reader comes away with a greater appreciation of the AACM's achievements: Great Black Music, from Ancient to the Future." * The Wire *"Musical analysis dominates the text, but Steinbeck’s thoughtful writing makes the descriptions work on several levels: for a student, or anyone interested in learning about how the music works; for a non-musician who may breeze past the score excerpts but dig into the plain-speak breakdowns; or the attentive fan who can relate the structures discussed to stage dynamics they have witnessed." * New York City Jazz Record *"The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians has achieved worldwide recognition for its approaches to notated composition, improvisation, technology, and intermedia. Steinbeck’s extensive historical and methodological analysis of a wide range of AACM musical practices makes this book indispensable to an understanding of the leading role of Afrodiasporic experimentalism in the past, present, and future of new music." -- George Lewis"I really appreciate Paul Steinbeck’s scholarship in putting together Sound Experiments. I have always found him to be an engaging writer. I enjoy how he wrote about my compositions on my album Sound, as well as the different iterations of my composition Nonaah. He really dug deep!" -- Roscoe Mitchell"Steinbeck has written an excellent analysis of the works of composers-performers from the AACM. A clear and concise investigative text, it looks into many aspects involved in creating a work of musical art. His writing is creative and has an expressive use of language. I recommend his book to everyone." -- Wadada Leo Smith"One of the most significant avant-garde collectives of the twentieth century, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) remains a powerful force in the early 21st century. In Paul Steinbeck, the AACM has found a chronicler and scholar of passion, erudition, and discipline, the very qualities that have made it such an enduring institution." -- Adam Shatz"Rather than a tour through AACM history, Sound Experiments serves as a deep dive into six of the organization’s seminal albums across the decades, which makes listening to the music while reading a whole new kind of experience. Be it Abrams’s ambitious Levels and Degrees of Light from 1968 or Mitchell’s 1977 solo-concert album Nonaah… Steinbeck makes an authoritative guide." * The Slowdown *"Before analyzing each work, Steinbeck traces its genesis in a detailed monograph, illustrating the context in which it was born and the biography of the protagonists. (...) The result is a seminal work on the AACM, the first of its kind." -- Angelo Leonardi * AllAboutJazz.com *"Steinbeck provides some musical notations and deeper analysis of the sounds from his perspective as a musicologist – very illuminating to us, as we tend to have much more of a visceral response to these records." * Dusty Groove *"Paul Steinbeck, Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM (Chicago) — Musician and Washington University, St. Louis music professor Steinbeck provides a stimulating history of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) founded on Chicago’s South Side in 1965. He offers in-depth explorations of innovative performances by members of the organization, from Anthony Braxton’s Composition 76 to Wadada Leo Smith’s The Freedom Summers and Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds. He demonstrates the ways these pieces contributed singular approaches to notation, instrumentation, and musical form, creating fresh sounds to contemporary music." -- Henry Carrigan * The Journal of Roots Music No Depression *“A Seminary Coop Notable Book of the Year” * / *“A Seminary Coop Notable Book of the Year” * / *"Paul Steinbeck, Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM (Chicago) — Musician and Washington University, St. Louis music professor Steinbeck provides a stimulating history of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) founded on Chicago’s South Side in 1965. He offers in-depth explorations of innovative performances by members of the organization, from Anthony Braxton’s Composition 76 to Wadada Leo Smith’s The Freedom Summers and Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds. He demonstrates the ways these pieces contributed singular approaches to notation, instrumentation, and musical form, creating fresh sounds to contemporary music." -- Henry Carrigan * The Journal of Roots Music No Depression *“Essential reading for anyone interested in jazz and creative music. Steinbeck continues the ongoing task of situating the work of the AACM within the history of experimental music and composition, while always making clear the myriad ways that this music sets itself apart.” * Musicworks *"The music of the AACM is certainly some of the most artistically challenging music ever recorded. Sound Experiments is therefore an invaluable companion for those looking to dip their toes into this fascinating discography, as well as a rich source of information for those looking to dive more deeply into the depths of musical analysis." -- Tom Spargo * All About Jazz *"Not only does this book provide a wonderful addition to jazz scholarship, but Steinbeck has demonstrated that these artists should be talked about right along with other leading figures of the avant-garde music scenes in the 1960s and beyond. This book could prove useful to many researchers outside of the jazz realm, such as composers, performers of experimental music, musicologists, and general fans of experimental music." * Music Reference Services Quarterly *"Not only does this book provide a wonderful addition to jazz scholarship, but Steinbeck has demonstrated that these artists should be talked about right along with other leading figures of the avant-garde music scenes in the 1960s and beyond. This book could prove useful to many researchers outside of the jazz realm, such as composers, performers of experimental music, musicologists, and general fans of experimental music." * Music Reference Services Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Roscoe Mitchell, Sound :: Muhal Richard Abrams, Levels and Degrees of Light 2 Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah 3 Anthony Braxton, Composition 76 4 Air, Air Time 5 George Lewis, Voyager 6 Fred Anderson, Volume Two 7 AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, At Umbria Jazz 2009 8 Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers 9 Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds Conclusion Notes Recordings References Index
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University of Chicago Press The Internal Colony Race and the American
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The University of Chicago Press The End of the World
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of a classic work of twentieth-century anthropology and philosophy. A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto de Martino (19081965) produced a body of work that prefigured many ideas and concerns that would later come to animate anthropology. In his writing, we can see the roots of ethnopsychiatry and medical anthropology, discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer, considerations of social inequality and hegemony from a Gramscian perspective, and an anticipation of the discipline's existential turn. We also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published book La fine del mondo, or The End of the World. Examining apocalypse as an individual as well as a cultural phenomenon, treating subjects both classic and contemporary and both European and non-Western, ranging across ethnography, history, literature, psychiatry, and philosophy, de Martino probes how we reTrade Review“De Martino was well ahead of his time. Since his death we have witnessed the rise of medical anthropology, reflexivity, ethnographic film, ethnomusicology, and phenomenology. The time is now ripe for this translation of La fine del mondo to appear.” * Charles Stewart, University College London *Table of Contents Translator’s Preface Introduction Overture 1: Will There Be a World Tomorrow? 1: Mundus 2: Psychopathological Apocalypses 3: The Drama of Christian Apocalypse 4: Apocalypse and Decolonization 5: The Apocalypse of the West 6: Anthropology and Marxism 7: Anthropology and Philosophy Glossary Notes References Index
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University of Chicago Press The Legacy of the Enlightenment
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The University of Chicago Press Rachmaninoff and His World The Bard Music
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Philip Ross Bullock Permissions and Credits Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Dating MOSCOW AND MODERNITY Reading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Narrative Peter Franklin Sergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical Life Rebecca Mitchell Love Triumphant: Rachmaninoff’s Eros, the Silver Age, and the Middlebrow Marina Frolova-Walker Rachmaninoff and the “Vocalise”: Word and Music in the Russian Silver Age Philip Ross Bullock THREE OPERAS Tchaikovsky’s Echoes, Chaliapin’s Sobs: Aleko, Rachmaninoff, and the Contemporary Emily Frey Rachmaninoff’s Miserly Knight (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create) Caryl Emerson Burning for You: Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da Rimini Simon Morrison NEW WORLDS Rachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American Press Selected and Edited by Philip Ross Bullock The Eighteenth Variation Steve Swayne “One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time”: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1939 Rachmaninoff Cycle Christopher H. Gibbs “The Case of Rachmaninoff”: The Music of a White Emigré in the USSR Marina Raku, translated by Jonathan Walker Aesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff Leon Botstein Index Notes on the Contributors
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University of Chicago Press Sunk Cost Whos to Blame for the Nations Broken
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The University of Chicago Press The Tragic Science
Book SynopsisA forceful critique of the social science that has ruledand damagedthe modern world. The practice of economics, as economists will tell you, is a powerful force for good. Economists are the guardians of the world's economies and financial systems. The applications of economic theory can alleviate poverty, reduce disease, and promote sustainability. While this narrative has been successfully propagated by economists, it belies a more challenging truth: economic interventions, including those economists deem successful, also cause harm. Sometimes the harm is manageable and short-lived. But just as often the harm is deep, enduring, and even irreparable. And too often the harm falls on those least able to survive it. In The Tragic Science, George F. DeMartino says what economists have too long repressed: that economists do great harm even as they aspire to do good. Economist-induced harm, DeMartino shows, results in part from economists' irreparable ignorancefrom the fact that they know faTrade Review"In The Tragic Science, George DeMartino offers both epistemic and ethical objections to economic analysis, especially insofar as it influences public policy....DeMartino puts a bright spotlight on what he describes as the 'irreparable ignorance' of economists, who often have to deal with what is unknown and unknowable." * Cass R. Sunstein, The New York Review of Books *"With its reductive view of human nature, economics was called 'the dismal science' in the nineteenth century. Economist George DeMartino prefers 'tragic science,' because so many adherents have been willing to ignore harm in pursuit of growth. 'Their calling validated the imposition of whatever harms were necessary.…to get the job done,' he concludes. Such hubris has been tempered by global financial disasters and climate change, but the profession still requires major reform, he trenchantly argues." * Nature *"In economics, the pressure to create theoretical models and empirical tests that are rigorous yet tractable often leaves a lot to be desired in the actual interpretation of the work. This is a common problem in the social sciences, but it is especially important in economics, DeMartino argues, because of the field's influence on individual behavior and public policy. Good research can indeed provide important insight and evidence, but economists can do a lot of harm when models are flawed, data are suspect, and values are skewed in assessing economic outcomes. DeMartino suggests that the latter issue is critical, because it can have consequences that either are unintended or bypass the calibration of the intended, 'desirable' outcomes....A fascinating, confrontational read. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Tragic Science [explores] the complexity and severity of economic harm, highlighting the problematic presumptions about harm that underlie economists’ practice in the area of policy assessment and advocacy....[and considers] how economists can endorse social betterment when they cannot know the future impacts of the policies they propose." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Economics may be the science of trade-offs, yet economists are too ready to sweep under the rug the ethical trade-offs their practice entails. As DeMartino argues, these trade-offs arise both because economists claim more knowledge than they actually possess and because their preferred policies often cause irreparable harm for some people. DeMartino lays out a profoundly challenging agenda for economists—one for which there are no simple remedies yet must be confronted nevertheless." -- Dani Rodrik, coauthor of Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's Role"DeMartino sounds the alarm on how much damage economists can do out of paternalism and hubris. He issues a clarion call for economists to embrace ethical principles that oblige them to consider the harm they may do." -- William Easterly, author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor"This thoughtful dissection of the moral hubris of economics reveals simplistic and self-serving assumptions. Rather than offering some magical cure, it points to the need for greater ethical engagement with the often perilous practices of economic policy." -- Nancy Folbre, author of The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political EconomyTable of ContentsPreface Part I: The Tragic Science Chapter 1. The Tragedy of Economics Chapter 2. Economic Paternalism, Heroic Economics Chapter 3. Harm’s Complexity Part II: The Origins of Econogenic Harm Chapter 4. The Unevenness of Econogenic Impact Chapter 5. The Specter of Irreparable Ignorance Chapter 6. Counterfactual Fictions in Economic Explanation and Harm Assessment Part III: Economic Moral Geometry Chapter 7. Managing Harm via Economic Moral Geometry Chapter 8. Moral Geometry: An Assessment Chapter 9. Beyond Moral Geometry: Interests, Social Harm, Capabilities Part IV: Confronting Econogenic Harm Responsibly Chapter 10. Economic Harm Profile Analysis Chapter 11. Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty Chapter 12. Conclusion: From Reckless to Responsible Economics Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Osiris Volume 37
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTranslating Medicine, ca. 800–1900: Articulations and Disarticulations Tara Alberts, Sietske Fransen, and Elaine LeongTranslation and the Making of a Medical Archive: The Case of the Islamic Translation Movement Ahmed RagabUnveiling Nature: Liu Zhi’s Translation of Arabo-Persian Physiology in Early Modern China Dror WeilNew World Drugs and the Archive of Practice: Translating Nicolás Monardes in Early Modern Europe Alisha RankinWhen the Tallamys Met John French: Translating, Printing, and Reading The Art of Distillation Elaine LeongVernacular Languages and Invisible Labor in Ṭibb Shireen HamzaWhere There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Pyric Technologies and African Pipes in the Early Modern World Benjamin BreenTranslating the Inner Landscape: Anatomical Bricolage in Early Modern Japan Daniel TrambaioloCasting Blood Circulations: Translatability and Braiding Sciences in Colonial Bengal Projit Bihari MukharjiFemale Authority in Translation: Medieval Catalan Texts on Women’s Health Montserrat Cabré[Un]Muffled Histories: Translating Bodily Practices in the Early Modern Caribbean Pablo F. GómezTranslating Surgery and Alchemy between Seventeenth-Century Europe and Siam Tara Alberts“Use Me as Your Test!”: Patients, Practitioners, and the Commensurability of Virtue Hansun HsiungNotes on Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Chinese Whispers Toward a Transpacific Poetics
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An exile writer who fled the massacre of Tiananmen Square to begin a new literary life in American universities, Huang has a unique perspective on what he calls the ‘transpacific crossover’ between China and Anglo-America, particularly between our poetries, poetics, and translations. The Chinese Whispers of Huang’s title are those ‘inscrutable moments’ when poetry determines—and is determined by—political, national, and linguistic difference, dispelling all notions of universal intelligibility and global translatability. Indeed, Huang’s study details the ways our two literary cultures have in fact understood (and misunderstood) one another, using as test cases the works of I. A. Richards, Ernest Fenollosa, Lin Yutang, and Ezra Pound. Huang has produced a superb study that is theoretically sophisticated and yet also highly personal, witty, and deeply moving.” * Marjorie Perloff, author of 'Infrathin' *“Huang’s poetics and scholarship, relentless and original at their entangled core, have helped over these past decades to provide an expanded comparative vision of the American transpacific in its transnational, transcultural, off-center, writerly, and transcendental elements. Chinese Whispers continues this uncanny world-making project. Once again, we encounter timely transnational concerns with displacement, textual migrancy, cross-cultural translation, and stylistic experimentation, but here deployed in a quasi-surrealistic pattern of juxtaposition that gives Chinese Whispers imaginative force, eloquent engagement, professional edge, and staying power.” * Rob Sean Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction. Serve the People, Read Them Verse: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics and Politics 1. Through the Looking Glass: Basic English, Chinglish, and Translocal Dialect 2. Listening to Marco Polo: Sound, Money, and Vernacular Imagination 3. Words Made in China: Ezra Pound as a Translational Poet 4. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Too Big to Fail: Wallace Stevens, John Cage, and the Poetics of Risk 5. Chinese Whispers: The Future of Meaning in the Age of Information Coda: The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Nietzsches Kind of Philosophy Finding His Way
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Schacht provides a 'large-scale reconsideration' of Nietzsche’s work that emphasizes the need to examine the philosopher’s assertions in the context of his entire corpus to understand the ways in which his thinking evolved. Doing so, the author contends, reveals that Nietzsche’s reputation as a nihilist is overblown . . . [and that] Nietzsche wasn’t an individualist . . . Scholars will find this an evenhanded . . . take on Nietzsche." * Publishers Weekly *“Nietzsche is notoriously hard to situate on the philosophical map, given his stylistic variety and nonsystematic aspirations. Schacht argues that various labels commonly applied to the German philosopher are only apt to a point. Examining a range of Nietzsche’s writings, Schacht shows how each work contributes to the philosopher’s broad project of interpreting human beings as natural creatures capable of developing more than ‘merely natural’ capacities. This accessible but interpretively rich book will help general readers find their way when reading Nietzsche while also engaging the interest of scholars.” -- Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas at Austin“Schacht’s latest book is one of a kind. With unparalleled insight, he offers a comprehensive, sharp-sighted, and scrupulously honest rendering of Nietzsche’s main concerns, but above all an illuminating investigation into the primary, determining questions: What exactly is the purpose of philosophy, according to Nietzsche? How did he radically transform the discipline? And why did he have to? A priceless book which provides a lucid understanding of Nietzsche’s specific stance and logic.” -- Patrick Wotling, University of ReimsTable of ContentsPreface Reference Key Introduction Prologue 1 Toward Understanding Nietzsche Part I Nietzsche Becoming Nietzsche 2 The Nietzsche of Human, All Too Human Addendum: The Nietzsche of Daybreak 3 The Nietzsche of Joyful Inquiry I–IV 4 The Nietzsche of Thus Spoke Zarathustra 5 The Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil Addendum: The Nietzsche of Joyful Inquiry V 6 The Nietzsche of On the Genealogy of Morality Addendum: The Nietzsche of 1888 Part II Nietzsche Becoming—What? 7 Nietzsche as Nihilist? 8 Nietzsche as Existentialist? 9 Nietzsche as Individualist? 10 Nietzsche as “Free Spirit”? 11 Nietzsche as Naturalist? Backstory and Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography of Related Nietzsche Studies Index
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University of Chicago Press Instrument of War Music and the Making of
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The University of Chicago Press Big Med Megaproviders and the High Cost of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“David Dranove and Lawton R. Burns offer an exhaustive . . . analysis of the consolidation of US hospitals and the effect it has had on both the cost and quality of health care. . . . As the country tries to rein in the cost of health care, Big Med offers a forceful argument for focusing our attention on hospitals.” * Washington Monthly *"David Dranove and Lawton Burn’s new collaboration Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America provides readers with a comprehensive tutorial on consolidation in United States healthcare markets over the past 40 years. . . . anyone with a serious interest in the prices of U.S. healthcare will want to have this rigorous and timely treatment on their bookshelf." * Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics *“For years, allies of big medicine have argued that Bigger is Better. Dranove and Burns take on that argument and show it is not true. They point out how big medicine is failing and how it can be reformed. This book is wonderfully informed and thoughtfully presented.” -- David Cutler, Harvard University“Incorporating tough-minded analysis with powerful rhetoric, this book describes why the US healthcare delivery system fails us, why mergers are unlikely to help, and what industry and policy leaders can do to turn things around.” -- Leemore Dafny, Harvard Business School“Big Med is an absolute treasure trove of health care antitrust history, offering an important overview of the last two decades of the US health care industry through a competition lens. Its findings will appeal to health systems leaders and health economists alike.” -- Melissa Thomasson, Julian Lange Professor of Economics at Miami University and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research"The book is highly readable, even punctuated with pleasant moments of dry wit... The book also has what I call perfect pitch. It dives deep into the psychology of the various players, accurately explaining their hopes and fears... The authors' perfect pitch—knowing exactly what the various players are thinking and feeling, and why—merges into the book’s third great value: the book rings true." * Law & Liberty *
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The University of Chicago Press Hearing Happiness
Book SynopsisWeaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society'sand her ownperception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to pass as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and technologies led to dead ends. Never quite deaf enough for the Deaf community or quite hearing enough for the normal majority, Virdi was stuck in aural limbo for years. It wasn't until her thirties, exasperated by problems with new digital hearing aids, that she began to actively assert her deafness and reexamine society'sand her ownperception of life as a deaf person in America. Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Taking us from theTrade Review“In part a critical memoir of her own life, this archival tour de force centers on d/Deafness, and, specifically, the obsessive search for a “cure”… This survey of cure and its politics, framed by disability studies, allows readers—either for the first time or as a stunning example in the field—to think about how notions of remediation are leveraged against the most vulnerable.” * Public Books *"Engaging . . . A sweeping chronology of human deafness fortified with the author’s personal struggles and triumphs." * Kirkus Reviews *"Part memoir, part historical monograph, Virdi’s Hearing Happiness breaks the mold for academic press publications." * Publishers Weekly *“In her insightful book, Virdi probes how society perceives deafness and challenges the idea that a disability is a deficit. . . . [She] powerfully demonstrates how cures for deafness pressure individuals to change, to ‘be better’.” * Washington Post *"Hearing Happiness provides a welcome extended view of the medical-technological impetus to“fix” deafness, revealing an unsettling historical continuity concerning the perversities and shortcomings of deafness cures over the last two centuries. For this, Hearing Happiness is a resounding success, exploring the deep ambivalences that often arise from normalization projects and their attendant medical technologies." * ISIS: A Journal of the History of Science Society *"Informative and engaging." * Ms. Magazine *"The most striking thing about Virdi’s book is how it confirms that hearing loss isn’t a minor annoyance that afflicts a few people. Rather, with tremendous archival work, she shows us that, over the past three centuries, Anglo-American culture has been virtually obsessed with trying to cure deafness." * Times Higher Education *"This unique book combines autobiography with broader history. Virdi traces her own personal history along with the history of treatments, assistive devices, and attempted cures for deafness in the U.S. from the 1860s to the present." * Book Riot *"Offers a well-illustrated history of the marketing of hearing aids, particularly in North America. The material proves to be remarkably rich, and also rather troubling. . . . An enlightening book." * Times Literary Supplement *"Virdi’s book offers an educational and personal exploration of the cultural history for treatment of deafness. She provides an engrossing examination of the remedies and ministrations that display the spectrum of diversity within the deaf community. Virdi’s research proffers a strong voice for every person who is impacted by the inability to hear." * Story Circle Network *"[Virdi] guides us through the history of deafness cures as both a historian immersed in the archive as well as a deaf woman with her own experiences navigating today’s landscape of treatments and so-called cures. It’s a special gift for a history like this. Virdi is interested in the efficacy of various deafness cures only inasmuch as they demonstrate the huge variety of choices and experiences deaf and hard of hearing people have had in navigating a hearing world. That is, this is not a book about debunking quackery. It is something much more interesting: a history of who makes decisions about what is normal, who is designated impaired or disabled, who determines such criteria, and how people who experience different types of hearing loss have understood their own bodies and identities." * Lady Science *“Hearing Happiness is as much a personal memoir as it is a contribution to science, technology, and the history of medicine in North America from roughly the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.” * H-Soz-Kult *“Hearing Happiness… gives us analytical tools to be able to write history and political tools to investigate how illness, abnormality or disability is created in today’s society.” * Morgenbladet *“Hearing Happiness is a spell-binding book of research and stories. . . . In positioning her own story so centrally to the book, Virdi consolidates the power of her argument, and it operates as a political intervention into deafness as well as being a brilliant contribution to the historiography of deafness.” * H-Net *“Poetically weaving her own experiences as a deaf person into a history of hearing loss, Virdi makes a compelling argument that deafness is as much a cultural construct as it is a physical phenomenon. Rigorously researched and eminently readable, Hearing Happiness is packed with historical gems that will fascinate any reader.” * Lindsey Fitzharris, author of 'The Butchering Art' *“Everyone needs to read this fascinating history of hearing loss, technology, medicine, and audism. In examining deafness cures and sharing her own personal story, Virdi reveals society’s ever-evolving processes in creating and enforcing normalcy.” * Alice Wong, founder and director of Disability Visibility *"I always love reading books by deaf authors who grew up mainstream like me. If you want to learn about mainstreamed deaf people and the medical mysteries of deafness and its history, read this book! Virdi shares lots of fascinating information that I never knew before." * Rikki Poynter, Youtuber and deaf activist *“Hearing Happiness is smart, captivating, and immensely important. We can only grow as a society when we listen to the people we’ve placed on the fringes of it. Deaf people don’t need cures—they deserve respect and support. If you want to be a person on the front lines of necessary change, start with this book!” * Keah Brown, creator of #DisabledAndCute and author of The Pretty One *“Told with clarity and compassion, Virdi’s moving story will resonate with any reader seeking to understand what it truly is like to be deaf in the US." * Cäsar Jacobson, activist, author, and actor *“Hearing Happiness provides so much surprising and interesting historical information, as well as many answers about audism, the history of technology, and our perception of hearing loss. Virdi’s personal story is moving, and her research takes us on all kinds of trips back in time. Fascinating.” * Ilya Kaminsky, author of 2019 National Book Award finalist Deaf Republic *“Virdi has written a landmark study in the history of technology: one that shows in powerfully specific and deeply personal ways how technologies construct social norms and mold the way we live. Her nuanced account of the history of technologies designed to ‘cure’ the way that certain people experience the world is a powerful testament to the need for people from marginalized groups to have a seat at the table when technological fixes are proffered by tech corporations and the medical establishment.” * Mar Hicks, author of 'Programmed Inequality' *"An innovative and engaging historical study of deafness cures, Hearing Happiness details the complex relationship between deaf people, technology industries, medical specialists and consumer culture. . . .This refreshingly accessible work will likely become a durable historical resource inside and outside of classrooms." * Social History of Medicine *"Hearing Happiness is a must read for a broad audience interested in modern U.S. history, histories of medicine, technology, science, disability and deaf culture, and Disability and Deaf Studies. Virdi draws the reader in through a combination of masterful narrative, storytelling, and humor. Written in accessible prose, interwoven with the familiar from the broader tapestry of U.S. history, this text is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History is a stunning masterpiece of historical scholarship." * Endeavor *
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The University of Chicago Press The News Event Popular Sovereignty in the Age of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is the first major ethnographic study of the way in which the mobilization of a public is now carried out in India primarily through the new digitally powered mass media. From populist politics, court judgments, sensational crime and corruption to police brutality, Cody examines with brilliant clarity and theoretical sophistication the coming together of publics as well as counterpublics in Tamil Nadu.” * Partha Chatterjee, professor emeritus, Columbia University *“In this fascinating study, Cody shows how popular sovereignty is shaped within the media-saturated environment of Tamil Nadu politics, making sovereign power vulnerable to popular politics generated by the fact of the ‘news event’ and its circulation. His unraveling of the boundaries between online and offline communicative acts, the virtual and the actual, or the old media and new media, is accomplished with great sensitivity and attention to the empirical, which provides the grounds for the conceptual to emerge. A splendid achievement.” * Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Event of News Chapter One Populist Publics Chapter Two Defamation Machine Chapter Three Law at Large Chapter Four Celebrity Outlaws Chapter Five Short Circuits Epilogue: Environmental Engineering Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press This Is Rhythm Ella Jenkins Childrens Music and
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The University of Chicago Press A Certain Justice Toward an Ecology of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In place of the stale debate over China’s progress toward a Western ‘rule of law,’ A Certain Justice offers a fresh interpretation of Chinese legal culture informed by China’s own literary traditions. Guiding the reader on a colorful journey from spy thrillers and tales of hypocrisy through contemporary court dramas, Lee reveals a vibrant legal imagination that is hierarchical rather than horizontal, encompassing both the ‘high justice’ of the state and the ‘low justice’ of society at large. The result, she suggests, is an intertwining of law and politics animated by a logic quite unlike that of Western jurisprudence, but no less important for informing conceptions of morality and governance.” * Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University *“Lee guides us through the rich terrain of literature and film as material archives to examine the fabric of Chinese justice. By avoiding reliance on legal jurisprudence, Lee charts how the Chinese Communist Party has become the actual arbiter of justice. Her critical examination of the legal imagination in fiction and in history suggests that by ‘positioning itself at the moral-ideological pinnacle,’ the party has been able to demand that its own legitimacy and self-preservation are at the root of justice. Her expansive investigation ranges from prewar texts to literature in postwar spy novels, to animal-themed novels in the twenty-first century. Importantly, Lee’s research explains why the injustice meted out at the lower strata of Chinese society is often seen as an acceptable sacrifice for the ‘high justice’ achieved by the state.” * Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge *“This subtle, learned, capacious book looks at China’s alternative to liberalism as a complex interplay between three terms: justice, morality, and law, with law always playing second fiddle (though a necessary fiddle) to the other two. At a moment when the Chinese statist paradigm can no longer be dismissed as an inadequate copy of Western rule of law, this timely study opens up a critical space for reappraisal.” * Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University *"By drawing on a vast and diverse body of textual evidence that allows us to better appreciate the vibrant diversity and unique contributions of Chinese justice to global legal cultures, Haiyan Lee has achieved conceptual breakthroughs with the potential to inspire future generations of scholars for years to come." -- Paul Katz * MCLC Resource Center Publication *"While there is already excellent work in the genre of Chinese Law and Literature, this work sets a new standard for the field. Indeed, it far exceeds the bounds of both law and literature, expanding into adjacent fields of legal and literary humanities: history, political theory, moral philosophy, and cognitive psychology, to name just some of the many literatures on which Lee draws in A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination. This is a smart and ambitious book filled with exciting local and global insights, some of which are dazzling." -- Teemu Ruskola * Law and Literature *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. High Justice Chapter 2. Low Justice Chapter 3. Transitional Justice Chapter 4. Exceptional Justice Chapter 5. Poetic Justice Chapter 6. Multispecies Justice Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Region among States Law and Nonsovereignty in
Book SynopsisBased on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated by the nation-state. How is it that a great swath of the independent, English-speaking Caribbean continues to accept the judicial oversight of their former colonizer via the British institution of the Privy Council? And what possibilities might the Caribbean Court of Justicea judicial institution responsive to the region, not to any single nationoffer for untangling sovereignty and regionhood, law and modernity, and postcolonial Caribbean identity? Joining the Court as an intern, Lee Cabatingan studied its work up close: she attended each court hearing and numerous staff meetings, served on committees, assisted with the organization of conferences, and helped prepare speeches and presentations for the judges. She now offers insight into not only how the Court positions itself vis-à-vis the Caribbean region and the world but also whether the Courtand, perhaps, the region itself as an overarching constructmight ever achieve a real measure of popular success. In their quest for an accepting, eager constituency, the Court is undertaking a project of extrajudicial region building that borrows from the toolbox of the nation-state. In each chapter, Cabatingan takes us into an analytical dimension familiar from studies of nation and state buildingmyth, territory, people, language, and brandto help us understand not only the Court and its ambitions but also the regionalist project, beset as it is with false starts and disappointments, as a potential alternative to the sovereign state.Trade Review“This is an empathetic and rigorous anthropology of the CCJ. Sharply constructed and with flowing writing, Cabatingan’s ethnography brings together questions and approaches from postcolonial regionalism, legal anthropology, and Caribbean studies. Through eye-opening conversations with judges and throughout the court, interwoven with a careful study of media and archival material, she shows how the delicate balance between the work of adjudication and of political region making raises dilemmas that otherwise remain right below the surface.” * Naor Ben-Yehoyada, author of The Mediterranean Incarnate *“This fascinating study of the CCJ deftly mines the peripheries of the court’s work to show successfully how the court uses and reimagines the tools of statecraft in its central effort of promoting a region. The book’s rich analysis of the array of activities of and feelings about the CCJ is a great contribution to what we know about the complex work of new apex courts and scholarly debates about region-making projects in the Caribbean.” * Tracy Robinson, coeditor of Transitions in Caribbean Law *Table of ContentsOrientation: The Caribbean Court of Justice 1 Introduction 2 A Myth 3 A Territory 4 A People 5 A Language 6 A Brand 7 A Region Acknowledgments Appendix: Methods and Positionality Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Democracy for Busy People
Book SynopsisAdvances an alternative approach to democratic reform that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics. How do we make democracy more equal? Although in theory, all citizens in a democracy have the right to participate in politics, time-consuming forms of participation often advantage some groups over others. Where some citizens may have time to wait in long lines to vote, to volunteer for a campaign, to attend community board meetings, or to stay up to date on national, state, and local news, other citizens struggle to do the same. Since not all people have the time or inclination to devote substantial energy to politics, certain forms of participation exacerbate existing inequalities. Democracy for Busy People takes up the very real challenge of how to build a democracy that empowers people with limited time for politics. While many plans for democratic renewal emphasize demanding forms of political participation and daunting ideals oTrade Review"Elliott meets the theoretical challenges to democracy head-on and provides a workable normative model to judge real-world examples by...The theorist, the empiricist, and the activist alike will all find something of value to take away from Democracy for Busy People." * Liberal Currents *"[Elliott] devises a conception of the civic responsibilities of citizenship that is authentically democratic without being overly demanding." * New Books Network *"Highly original and thought-provoking, Elliott takes a quotidian concern—not enough hours in the day to do all that we have to do—and illuminates its implication for democracy and equal citizenship. The unequal distribution of time to do stuff—including, and especially, political stuff like voting, going to a meeting, or keeping up with the issues—has deep implications for inclusive citizenship. From the democratic significance of unequal temporal opportunity to participate in politics, Elliott builds a rich, empirically grounded, and institutionally sophisticated normative picture of how to safeguard the ideal of equal citizenship in 21st century democracies." -- Simone Chambers | University of California, Irvine"Democracy for Busy People is an important book about trade-offs. It's about the trade-offs ordinary people must make in the use of their time, and the real sacrifices of time that people must make to take part in, learn about, or even care about democratic politics. And it's about the trade-offs in institutional design that necessarily follow: how more complicated, frequent, and deliberative modes of democratic politics exclude those with less time on their hands. Kevin Elliott has made a major contribution to empirically-informed democratic theory, both in his arguments for wide-ranging reforms to favor inclusivity and reduced time demands, and in his defenses of elections, parties, and broad-based participation not only against democracy's opponents but also against its too-ambitious advocates." -- Jacob T. Levy | McGill University“Kevin Elliott offers a highly original and extremely engaging analysis of the demands of political participation and the implications for democracy. He begins by acknowledging that people are busy and only have so much time to attend to the requirements of effective democratic participation. But, unlike many who argue that the problem rests with the individual citizen, he argues quite persuasively that the problem lies in the complexity of the system itself. In doing so, he makes a compelling case that busyness is an important determinant of inequality in a democratic society and thus must be remedied as a matter of justice. Democracy for Busy People is an impressive argument that will reward the time spent reading it—regardless of how busy you are.” -- Jack Knight | Duke UniversityTable of Contents1. The Demands of Democratic Citizenship Part I: How Much Democratic Citizenship? 2. Democracy’s Floor: The Case against Apathy 3. When Does Democracy Ask Too Much? Realism and the Paradox of Empowerment 4. The Citizen Minimum: Inclusion and Stand-By Citizenship Part II: Democratic Institutions for Busy People 5. How to Democratize Elections: Annual Elections and Mandatory Voting 6. Engines of Inclusion: Political Parties in Competition 7. Putting Deliberation and Sortition in Their Place Conclusion: Too Much Democracy? Acknowledgments Appendix References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Reactionary Mathematics
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The complex relationship between tradition and modernization is the pulsing heart of this engaging book. Beside a valuable historical analysis, Reactionary Mathematics offers an interesting and useful synthesis vision to help us understand, in these times of rapid and convulsive transformation, the mathematics of the present and, most importantly, the reasons for the mathematics that will come.” * Nature *“Reactionary Mathematics is an ambitious book that is more than just a history of mathematics but an episode in the history of reason, furnished with a delightful display of different kinds of evidence, from archival documents to political satires to theological treatises to paintings to mathematics textbooks. . . . [It] is a deftly written and timely book brimming with empirical, conceptual and historiographical insights.” * British Journal for the History of Science *"For anyone interested in the "politics of mathematical modernity," this book shows how allegiances to particular types or styles of mathematics may indeed be related to Neapolitan academicians' personal responses to the urgent political pressures of their day." * Choice *“One notable strength of Mazzotti’s book is its ability to transition seamlessly between different levels of analysis. It connects an in-depth historical exploration of a specific local context, such as Naples, with the social and political constraints unique to that site. Simultaneously, it addresses major upheavals and broad conceptual changes such as the evolution of purity, rigor, and abstraction and the very definition of 'modernity' in mathematics. In doing so, the book tackles a critical methodological challenge in the social history of mathematics, bridging the gap between the claim of universality associated with mathematical knowledge and the intricate study of the local contexts and social practices that underpin the production of such knowledge. Mazzotti’s thought-provoking narrative not only demonstrates . . . that mathematics is intimately connected to its cultural, social and political context, but it also prompts readers to consider new avenues of research.” * Historia Mathematica *“Mazzotti offers us a superbly crafted historical study of the interweaving of mathematics, politics, religion, social order, and even olive oil presses in the Kingdom of Naples around 1800. This gives him a distinctive, striking platform from which to address big questions: the relationship between science and politics, the connections between mathematics and modernity, and how we should understand mathematics’ past.” -- Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh“Mazzotti has written a fascinating case study of ‘mathematical resistance’ in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Naples. On the most fundamental level, the book’s exploration of ‘mathematics as politics’ observes the reciprocal interactions between the mathematical imagination of historical actors and their sociopolitical circumstances. Mazzotti’s keen attention to the political actors themselves tells a very human story of mathematics, and of the events and changes that led to the development of this seemingly quixotic Neapolitan resistance to mathematical modernity.” -- Sean Cocco, Trinity College“A landmark account of Neapolitan reactionary mathematics in context that contributes insightfully to the histories of Naples, reaction, and mathematics in their separate and interacting respects.” -- Michael Barany, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mathematics as Social Order 1 Adventures of the Analytic Reason 2 Mathematics at the Barricades 3 Empire of Analysis 4 The Shape of the Kingdom Intermezzo: Algorithm or Intuition? 5 The Geometry of Reaction 6 A Scientific Counterrevolution 7 A Reactionary Reason 8 Mathematical Purity as Return to Order Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Remapping Sovereignty Decolonization and
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The University of Chicago Press Love Songs in Motion Voicing Intimacy in
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The University of Chicago Press Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the
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